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V-252969CAT II — Medium severitySV-252969r1190845_rule

All TOSS local interactive user home directories must have mode 0750 or less permissive.

Rule version TOSS-04-020300 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Users' home directories/folders may contain information of a sensitive nature. Nonprivileged users should coordinate any sharing of information with a system administrator (SA) through shared resources.

Check

Verify TOSS 4 limits the ability of nonprivileged users to grant other users' direct access to the contents of their home directories/folders.

Verify the user permissions on all user home directories is set to "750" permissions with the following command:

$ find $(awk -F: '($3>=1000)&&($7 !~ /nologin/){print $6}' /etc/passwd) -maxdepth 0 -not -perm 750 -ls

If there is any output, this is a finding.

Fix

Change the mode of interactive user's home directories to "0750" using the following command:

Note: The example will be for the user "disauser".

$ sudo chmod 0750 /home/disauser

Identifiers

Group ID
V-252969
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00230
Rule ID
SV-252969r1190845_rule
Check ID
C-56422r1190844_chk
Fix ID
F-56372r1184492_fix